Shakespeare's skull 'probably stolen' from Stratford grave

STRATFORD: -- A hi-tech investigation of William Shakespeare's grave has concluded his skull was probably stolen.

The discovery gives credence to a news report in 1879, later dismissed as fiction, that trophy hunters took the skull from his shallow grave in 1794.

A team used a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) scan to look through the grave at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford in the first archaeological probe of the site.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-35883872


-- BBC 2016-03-24

Alas poor William! I knew him, Horatio

Edited March 24, 201610 yr by PREM-R

Hope William has been cast as a prop. Wouldn't that be ironic?

And the story continues.....

It wasn't Horricks he was already dead

Where is Pickles the Dog when you need him?

Hope William has been cast as a prop. Wouldn't that be ironic?

Better than doing time as an ashtray.

Though this be skulduggery, yet there is method in 't.

I'll get my coat...

Edited March 25, 201610 yr by Swamp Thing

Is that a digger I see before me?